Bingang Xu is a full Professor in School of Fashion and Textiles at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He serves now as the Chair of Research Postgraduate Programme Committee and Deputy Chair of Research Committee in the School. Prof. Xu has published over 200 book chapters, journal and conference papers, and also holds 12 granted patents. His research interests include smart and sustainable wearables, wearable electronics, energy harvesting, conversion and storage, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Prof. Xu's recent work has been published in top-tier SCI journals such as Nature Communications, Matter, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Today, Nano-Micro Letters, Nano Energy, SusMat, Advanced Fiber Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, Energy Storage Materials, Carbon Energy, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, etc. Prof. Xu leads his team in doing frontier research, and over the past 5 years, has published over 60 journal articles in high-impact SCI journals with impact factor over 15.0 and also in Top 5% of ranked SCI journals as corresponding author. He has been ranked among the World's Top 2% most-cited scientists in the report of Stanford University. As the Principal Investigator, Prof. Xu has led his team to consecutively win Gold Awards with the Congratulations of Jury in International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland, in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

Prof. Xu is now serving as a reviewer for over 20 world leading journals with impact factor over 10.0 such as Nature Communications, Matter, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, etc. He has been invited as Chairman, Program Chair, Co-chair, Editor, Co-editor, Keynote Speaker, and Section Chair for a number of international conferences, and also served as a TPC member for over 20 international conferences with themes in advanced materials, sustainable green energy, electrical engineering and automation, materials and environmental, computer science and artificial intelligence, mechanical and applied mathematics. Prof. Xu is currently the Editor and Editorial Board Member of a number of SCI journals, also served as External Assessor and Examiner for overseas research grant proposals and PhD thesis.